Risk of Death Among Child Passengers in Front and Rear Seating Positions 973298
Using 1988-95 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, risk of death was compared among front- and rear-seated passengers ages 12 and younger involved in fatal crashes, controlling for restraint use, passenger airbags, and other variables. Among children sitting in the rear, risk of death was reduced about 35 percent in vehicles without passenger airbags and about 50 percent in vehicles with passenger airbags (difference was not statistically significant). Rear seats were protective for both restrained and unrestrained children. Children were about 10-20 percent less likely to die in rear center than in rear outboard positions.
Citation: Braver, E., Whitfield, R., and Ferguson, S., "Risk of Death Among Child Passengers in Front and Rear Seating Positions," SAE Technical Paper 973298, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/973298. Download Citation
Author(s):
Elisa R. Braver, Randy Whitfield, Susan A. Ferguson
Affiliated:
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Quality Control Systems Corp.
Pages: 10
Event:
41st Stapp Car Crash Conference
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Child Occupant Protection 2nd Symposium Proceedings-P-316
Related Topics:
Airbag systems
Children
Fatal injuries
Crashes
Seats and seating
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